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The West Asia Regional
Program (WARP) promotes regional cooperation in research, training, and information
dissemination in Cyprus, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and the
lowlands of Turkey. The collaborative research covers barley participatory
breeding, on-farm water husbandry, production and utilization of multi-purpose
fodder shrubs and trees, and the development of biotechnological research.
Major regional collaborative research projects in the region include the GEF/UNDP
Project on “Conservation and Sustainable Use of Dryland Agro-biodiversity”
and the trans-regional “Mashreq/Maghreb project.”
The third regional steering committee and technical planning meetings of the dryland agro-biodiversity project were held in Syria in October. Fifty-five participants attended, representing GEF, UNDP, and the National Project Components, as well as researchers from ICARDA, IPGRI, and ACSAD. A regional workshop on “Monitoring of Adoption and Impact Assessment of Transferred Improved Technologies” was held in Iraq in March, where more than 20 participants discussed and agreed approaches and methodologies to be used in the Mashreq/Maghreb project. This project also hosted a traveling workshop for farmers. The group visited ICARDA headquarters and research stations and monitored on-farm activities in Lebanon and Syria. Farmers and extension agents involved in the dryland agro-biodiversity project were also invited to a traveling workshop. They visited the experimental stations and the project sites in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Two national workshops were held in Jordan, on “Rangeland Management Strategy” and “Plant Variety Protection.” Farmers and scientists from CAC were invited to a traveling workshop on “Rainfed and Irrigated Agriculture” in Jordan, Syria, and Turkey in May.
